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Book Reviews ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 46 (Spring 2010): 240-244 IJ BOOK REVIEWS Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice. By John B. Hatch. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008; pp. 420. $90.00 cloth; $38.95 paper. In John B. Hatch's Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice, the author travels a rhetorically-inspired path to teach his readers and understand himself how the tragic legacy of slavery had escaped, until rather recently, earnest expressions of regret, apology, and social change. Hatch documents international and local instances of reconciliation that have inspired a new rhetoric of reconciliation defined as "a dialogic rhetorical process of rectifying wrongs and healing relationships between parties, in ways that promote their common good" (p. 9). In a fluid, engrossing tome, Hatch blends communication theories and their philo­ sophical underpinnings, to recent global and national events about which many readers will likely be unaware, to underscore the processes by which racial reconciliation has at last found hope and promise in the United States. Central to Hatch's proposition is that discourses of reconciliation can pave the way to difficult and dialogic conversations surrounding the existence and remediation options for racial disparities, systemic injustices, and material reparations. To do so, communities need to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Argumentation and Advocacy Taylor & Francis

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Jovanovic, Spoma; Krueger, Ben
Argumentation and Advocacy , Volume 46 (4): 5 – Mar 1, 2010
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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 46 (Spring 2010): 240-244 IJ BOOK REVIEWS Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice. By John B. Hatch. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008; pp. 420. $90.00 cloth; $38.95 paper. In John B. Hatch's Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice, the author travels a rhetorically-inspired path to teach his readers and understand himself how the tragic legacy of slavery had escaped, until rather recently, earnest expressions of regret,...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2010 Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
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2576-8476
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1051-1431
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10.1080/00028533.2010.11821733
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ARGUMENTATION AND ADVOCACY 46 (Spring 2010): 240-244 IJ BOOK REVIEWS Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice. By John B. Hatch. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008; pp. 420. $90.00 cloth; $38.95 paper. In John B. Hatch's Race and Reconciliation: Redressing Wounds- of Injustice, the author travels a rhetorically-inspired path to teach his readers and understand himself how the tragic legacy of slavery had escaped, until rather recently, earnest expressions of regret, apology, and social change. Hatch documents international and local instances of reconciliation that have inspired a new rhetoric of reconciliation defined as "a dialogic rhetorical process of rectifying wrongs and healing relationships between parties, in ways that promote their common good" (p. 9). In a fluid, engrossing tome, Hatch blends communication theories and their philo­ sophical underpinnings, to recent global and national events about which many readers will likely be unaware, to underscore the processes by which racial reconciliation has at last found hope and promise in the United States. Central to Hatch's proposition is that discourses of reconciliation can pave the way to difficult and dialogic conversations surrounding the existence and remediation options for racial disparities, systemic injustices, and material reparations. To do so, communities need to

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